Abstract
Self-handicapping motivation refers to the likelihood a person will project personal ambition into the future, make a pessimistic judgement, and then mobilise effort in the present to avoid an anticipated negative outcome. It should, therefore, be a correlate of future time perspective. This study showed for a sample of 120 first-year students that, whilst future time perspective did strongly predict scores on a measure of self-handicapping motivation, neither variable was a useful predictor of outcome.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 1070-1072 |
| Number of pages | 3 |
| Journal | Psychological Reports |
| Volume | 84 |
| Issue number | 3 PART 2 |
| Publication status | Published - Jun 1999 |
| Externally published | Yes |